From dba070531ec95a34cfb86d2f2d9c50cd8c96e779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gan, Jimmy" <jimmy.gan@adidas.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 13:55:09 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add --extractor-args youtubetab:skip=authcheck to yt-dlp to
 bypass blocking

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/fetcher.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/backend/fetcher.py b/backend/fetcher.py
index 49f6116..e098730 100644
--- a/backend/fetcher.py
+++ b/backend/fetcher.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ async def fetch_subscriptions():
         "--dump-json",
         "--cookies", COOKIES_PATH,
         "--playlist-end", "40",
+        "--extractor-args", "youtubetab:skip=authcheck",
         "https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions"
     ]